Midterm Exam Review

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Midterm Exam Review :


Unit I - The 2nd Industrial Revolution
  1. What is an industrial revolution?
  2. Railroads, oil, steel
  3. social Darwinism
  4. Capitalism
  5. Urbanization
  6. Entrepreneur
  7. Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
  8. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt
  9. monopoly and trusts
  10. Union
  11. Chinese Exclusion Act
  12. Tenements
  13. Political Machines
  14. Ellis Island

Unit II - The Progressive Era

  1. Progressivism / Progressives / Progressive Era
  2. muckrakers
  3. Jacob Riis / How the Other Half Lives
  4. Ida Tarbell
  5. Lincoln Steffens
  6. Upton Sinclair / The Jungle
  7. Meat Inspection Act / Pure Food and Drug Act
  8. 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
  9. initiative, referendum, recall - election reforms
  10. prohibition
  11. Susan B Anthony
  12. suffrage / suffragists
  13. Theodore Roosevelt
  14. Square Deal
  15. trust-busting / Sherman Antitrust Act / Clayton Antitrust Act
  16. Federal Reserve Act

Unit III - American Imperialism

  1. What is imperialism?
  2. Imperialist
  3. Motivations for imperialism
  4. social Darwinism
  5. The Spanish-American War
  6. Causes of the war - Cuba, USS Maine
  7. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
  8. William Randolph Hearst / yellow journalism
  9. de Lome Letter
  10. Theodore Roosevelt / Rough Riders
  11. Outcomes of the S-A War
  12. Debate over annexing the Philippines

Unit IV - American in World War I

  1. Background causes of WWI
  2. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  3. trench warfare
  4. neutrality & isolationism
  5. Allied vs. Central Powers
  6. Reasons the U.S. joined the war
  7. German unrestricted sub warfare / the Lusitania
  8. the Zimmerman note/telegram
  9. the Home Front
  10. Selective Service Act
  11. Liberty Bonds
  12. National War Labor Board
  13. Propaganda / Committee on Public Information
  14. rationing
  15. Woodrow Wilson
  16. 14 points
  17. Treaty of Versailles
  18. League of Nations